Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I am results-oriented.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The future will be better tomorrow.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Heaven means to be one with God.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.